What is your advice regarding the seeking of knowledge?
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Question:
This questioner says: We ask Your Eminence for advice on seeking knowledge, which is an individual obligation for every Muslim man and woman; because we observe that many people engage in acts of shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Answer:
It is obligatory for the Muslim to learn the matters of his religion without which his religion does not stand firm. This is an individual obligation for every Muslim to learn the correct creed, and to know what contradicts it and what undermines it, namely major and minor shirk. He must study the rulings of prayer, the rulings of zakah (the obligatory alms), the rulings of fasting, and the rulings of Hajj (the major pilgrimage)—the pillars of Islam. It is not permissible for a Muslim not to learn these matters, even if only in a summarized form, even if only in a summarized form, so that he knows them. There are brief summaries on the five acts of worship that are available; he should memorize them, read them to the shaykhs (scholars), and understand them, and in them is much good.
And if he sees that someone has fallen into shirk, he must clarify it to him and call him to tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and explain shirk to him, and he must not remain silent and leave him while he is able to teach him and call him to tawhid. Yes.
This questioner says: We ask Your Eminence for advice on seeking knowledge, which is an individual obligation for every Muslim man and woman; because we observe that many people engage in acts of shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Answer:
It is obligatory for the Muslim to learn the matters of his religion without which his religion does not stand firm. This is an individual obligation for every Muslim to learn the correct creed, and to know what contradicts it and what undermines it, namely major and minor shirk. He must study the rulings of prayer, the rulings of zakah (the obligatory alms), the rulings of fasting, and the rulings of Hajj (the major pilgrimage)—the pillars of Islam. It is not permissible for a Muslim not to learn these matters, even if only in a summarized form, even if only in a summarized form, so that he knows them. There are brief summaries on the five acts of worship that are available; he should memorize them, read them to the shaykhs (scholars), and understand them, and in them is much good.
And if he sees that someone has fallen into shirk, he must clarify it to him and call him to tawhid (the oneness of Allah), and explain shirk to him, and he must not remain silent and leave him while he is able to teach him and call him to tawhid. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم حول طلب العلم؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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